Acrylic topcoats

Among its ranges of topcoats and finishes intended to many fields (automotive, industry, decoration or graphic arts), Stardust offers, as a manufacturer, water-based acrylic finishes, which include acrylic clear coats.

> The range also includes high quality acrylic mediums, acrylic lacquers and acrylic binders, for professional, leisure or artistic use.

Odourless Acrylic topcoats and lacquers

These lacquers, clear coats, mediums or binders are acrylic resin-based, and provide odourless, solvent-free, non harmful and non hazardous formulations. These next-generation products nevertheless offer excellent durability for indoor and outdoor uses, and are UV-stable

They are used as acrylic paints or topcoats on wood, metal or others. As for binders and mediums, they allow various uses in artistic or decorative practices.

Advantages and disadvantages of water-based Acrylic Finishes

- Slow drying by cold temperature
- Lower resistance and hardness compared to solvent-based products.

+ Environmental sustainability: solvent content ranges between 0 and 20g/kg, depending on the types
+ User's comfort: odourless, pleasant to use indoors
+ Very good transparency properties
+ Quick drying in ambient air
+ Excellent resistance for outside conditions
+ Compatibility with solvent-based products in case of coverage
+ Compatibility with pigments
+ Easy application, choice between several methods: spray gun, airbrush, brush, paint brush, roller
+ Thinning and cleaning tools with water only
+ Can be hardened with hardener
+ Great flexibility, provides excellent adhesion

What is the difference between a topcoat, a binder, and a medium?

These different terms refer to fairly similar products, which are used for different purposes:
A topcoat is similar to a paint or a lacquer, apart from the fact that it is transparent and colourless. A lacquer is a tinted, opaque or transparent clear coat.
A topcoat and a lacquer have the same use: they are applied as a final layer of gloss finish.
As for the binder, it can be a matt or gloss clear coat, it binds pigments and dyes together, in the same way that a "medium" does for the purely graphic and artistic field.


Automotive topcoats
Special Topcoats
Matte Topcoats and Paints
2K Paints and matt bases